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Supreme Court rejects final Trump election challenge

By Nicholas Rowan
Published March 8, 2021 2:56pm ET
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Supreme Court rejects final Trump election challenge
The U.S. Capitol building stands past the "Authority of Law" statue at the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, April 7, 2017. Judge Neil Gorsuch is poised to win an intensely political confirmation fight to join a Supreme Court already struggling to stay above politics. The Senate's expected confirmation of Gorsuch Friday will restore the generally conservative majority that existed before Justice Antonin Scalia's death last year. | (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the last of former President Donald Trump’s election challenges.

The court turned away the case in which Trump questioned Wisconsin election procedures in an unsigned order. The decision marks the end of a flood of litigation appealed to the high court after Trump lost the 2020 election to President Biden. Trump, throughout his final days in office, frequently lashed out at the Supreme Court, calling the body “totally incompetent” when it turned away his other appeals.

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